I am new to the forums, I ave just reviewed the rules and I am excited to join Linux Mint community.

I have been playing around with Linux Mint the past few days from the KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox distributions.

I have noticed thats there is not "mint-meta-fluxbox" package for Linux Mint 9 Isadora. Every other distribution has a "mint-meta-xx" package. I was running XFCE and I tried to add fluxbox to the distribution. I downloaded the "fluxbox" package but it is not the same as the Linux 9 Isadora Live CD install. I was disappointed as it is missing all the nice features that Linux Mint provides.

I found a forum that recommends using Linux Mint 6 Felicia to get the package "mint-meta-fluxbox". I add the repositories for both Felicia and Isadora, although only Felicia has the necessary "mint-meta-fluxbox".

My work around was to install Fluxbox first and then add the "mint-meta-xfce".

Is this package missing deliberately? I just thought I would bring it up to the maintainers to allow other desktop environments to easily add fluxbox.

I am new to the forums, I ave just reviewed the rules and I am excited to join Linux Mint community.

I have been playing around with Linux Mint the past few days from the KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox distributions.

I have noticed thats there is not "mint-meta-fluxbox" package for Linux Mint 9 Isadora. Every other distribution has a "mint-meta-xx" package. I was running XFCE and I tried to add fluxbox to the distribution. I downloaded the "fluxbox" package but it is not the same as the Linux 9 Isadora Live CD install. I was disappointed as it is missing all the nice features that Linux Mint provides.

I found a forum that recommends using Linux Mint 6 Felicia to get the package "mint-meta-fluxbox". I add the repositories for both Felicia and Isadora, although only Felicia has the necessary "mint-meta-fluxbox".

My work around was to install Fluxbox first and then add the "mint-meta-xfce".

Is this package missing deliberately? I just thought I would bring it up to the maintainers to allow other desktop environments to easily add fluxbox.

Thank you, I have already added the necessary repository but there is no "mint-meta-fluxbox" package. There is a "mint-meta-kde", "mint-meta-gnome", "mint-meta-xfce", etc. I was having trouble adding the mint fluxbox set up without the meta package.

The reason that there is not a "Mint-Meta-" package for Fluxbox -- is that "Meta-packages" are for Desktop Environments.Openbox and Fluxbox are not Desktop Environments but are Window Managers.

There is actually an official release of Mint-9 Fluxbox Edition.

I am using Mint-9 Fluxbox, now.The Mint Devs have done a great job of adding and configuring Fluxbox.I have learned a great deal about the Flubox window manager ... easier, faster and more configueable than Openbox, IMO.

I would go with the 'official' release of Mint-9 Fluxbox ... unless, you want the experience of installing Flubox yourself.

Kendall, the Mint Dev in-charge of Fluxbox here, has said that the next version of Mint-Fluxbox will be Debian-based.I am looking forward to LinuxMint-Debian-Fluxbox Edition.